This Green Dome is saving an Australian client $70,000 per year.
Biological Scrubber for odour control at award-winning WWTP
Scrubber for Dunedin Tannery
Project Date
Industry
Products
1990s
Tannery
Packed Bed Scrubber
Solution
Smaller scrubber for tannery in Dunedin that was required to reduce their odourous hydrogen sulphide emissions to meet Air Discharge Requirements
Tannery Drum Extraction Hoods
Project Date
Industry
Products
1986
Tanneries
Fibreglass Hoods & Covers
Solution
Armatec supplies all fibreglass lip extraction hoods for Challenge Cook drums. These provide good capture of odourous hydrogen sulphide, without restricting access to the drums for loading and unloading animal hides.
Scrubber at Auckland Tannery
Project Date
Industry
Products
1986
Tanneries
Cross-flow wet-packed scrubber, stack,
Key Facts
Tannery in Wiri, Auckland was causing odour problems with neighbours. Gases were extracted from Challenge Cook tanning drums and treated in this crossflow scrubber. Armatec also supplied ducting, fan, stack and chemical dosing equipment. The two stage scrubber was designed to minimise chemical consumption. See paper written.
Scrubber at Hawkes Bay Tannery
Key Facts
Air extracted from tanning drums and hydrogen sulphide gas scrubbed with caustic; liquid then sent to onsite sulphide treatment. All fibreglass installation handles the very corrosive liquors and gases.
Two-stage Bio-carbon unit for cost-effective zero odour
Green Dome Odour Filter at Mangawhai Village
Project Date
Industry
Product
Challenge
The Mangawhai wastewater sewer network is a combination of pressure sewers and a gravity network. The main pump station at Mangawhai Village is located just 10 metres from a gift shop. There were odour complaints from this pump station as soon as it originally started operation. The pump station handles inflows from both gravity sewers and pressure sewers, and pumps directly to the main Mangawhai wastewater pump station, near the wastewater treatment plant. The area is mainly a holiday destination, with its population increasing dramatically in summer months.
To solve the challenge, the operators required the following key requirements for an odour filter be met: that it had minimum maintenance, low operating costs and low visual impact.
Solution
Armatec installed a GDOF-24 Green Dome Odour Filter connected directly to the pump station with an underground duct, treating the air as it is physically displaced from the pump station when the water level rises. A larger GDOF was installed on a second pump station in close-by area in Mangawhai.
The Green Domes were installed partly underground, with the ducting from the pump station totally underground, minimising visual impact. A domed lid covering the top of the carbon bed is all that is visible.
Constructed in corrosion resistant fibreglass, all parts are designed to have a very low pressure drop, ensuring as much air as possible exits the pump station via the carbon bed.
Outcome
The outcome has been wonderful for the shops, neighbours and visitors - with all odour issues removed.
The gift shop attendant noted: "The odour was gone as soon as it was installed. There is no odour whatsoever, in comparison to how it was. It is just fantastic. It was a horrible smell. It made the working environment really hard to work in. Customers would always comment on it."
Following the first two successful Green Domes at Mangawhai in 2010, over 50 Green Domes have now been installed throughout New Zealand and Australia eliminating odours released from pump stations, air release valves and manholes.
“There hasn’t been a whiff since you installed it. You wouldn’t even know the pump station was there”
Odour Control at Food Manufacturing Plant
Carbon Bed Adsorbers for Landfill Gas Odour
A retirement village was built on the site of an old landfill, closed many years earlier. The developer had to control methane emissions from the landfill, and installed a number of bores to extract gases from the landfill. The challenge was to dispose of the methane without any odour complaints from the hydrogen sulphide gas that came out of the wells with the methane.